Ribbon Skirt
Led by Anishinaabe musician Tashiina Buswa, Ribbon Skirt is a four-piece alternative group from Montreal formerly known as Love Language. Their 2025 debut album Bite Down (released on Mint Records) brings a darker and more introspective sound, dealing with themes of memory, grief and Buswa’s connection to her Indigenous identity and cultural practices.
Cassia Hardy
As the singer/guitarist for the rock band Wares, Cassia Hardy has performed at festivals and clubs from Dawson City to Charlottetown. Her music is voltage controlled, dreamy and deliberate, not raw but worked to a fine point. Self-described as “loud-ish,” Hardy’s anthems echo across Treaty 6 with deliberate dreaminess and folky verve.
Non La
The brainchild of Chinese-Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist DJ On, Non La harnesses relentless pop hooks, earworm melodies, and Weezer-esque guitar solos to explore queer storytelling. His latest album, Like Before, explores pinkwashing, Asian fetishization, and love with tenderness and nonstop guitarmonies. Pop, rock, and grunge come together to share personal experiences with wit and honesty.
Future Star
Imagine a fable where moments have meaning, reflection can bring peace, and a lesson lies behind experiences both mundane and fantastic – Future Star tells that story. This bedroom popstar has been releasing catchy keyboard music with “sweet and comically candid lyrics” (Discorder) since 2016. Intimate and theatrical, Future Star will make you feel a feeling.
Rebel Grrrlz
Hailing from the underground of Calgary’s all-ages music scene, Rebel Grrrlz are a loud and fast five-piece punk band. In their first year together, they made a serious mark on the local scene by playing the 2024 Sled Island Music Festival, Sled Island’s All-Ager Rager, and an opening slot for the Avengers during the Sloth Records 30th Anniversary Party.
About Sled Island:
Sled Island is an annual five-day independent music and arts festival in Calgary, Alberta that brings together a community of music, comedy and art with nearly 30,000 attendees in multiple venues across the city. For more information, visit SledIsland.com.
Upon entering a festival venue, the passholder agrees to being photographed, filmed or recorded in that venue, and agrees to the publication, reproduction, distribution and broadcast of all photographs, video or other recordings of the passholder's voice or likeness without further notice or compensation in any publicity, advertisement or other publication carried-out by, or on behalf of, Sled Island and in perpetuity in any manner and media whatsoever, including print, broadcast or internet.
Everyone has the right to feel safe and included at Sled Island. All festival attendees must abide by Sled Island's safer spaces and inclusion policy and agree to the code of conduct, which can be found at SledIsland.com/SaferSpaces.
Sled Island acknowledges Calgary as the traditional territory of the Blackfoot and the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Ĩyãħé Nakoda First Nations, including the Chiniki, Bearspaw and Goodstoney First Nations. Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta (Districts 5 and 6).
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